搖滾樂手Tom Petty上周日晚在加州Malibu家中因心臟病發被緊急送醫，但因腦波已停，家屬放棄救治而去世（67歲）。
Tom Petty 1950年出生於佛羅里達州Gainesville，他對搖滾樂產生興趣是因為他在電視上看到貓王在1961年電影"Follow That Dream"裡的演出，他組了一個叫the Epics的樂隊，後來改名 Mudcrutch並且到洛杉磯和Shelter唱片公司簽約灌唱片，這個團後來解散，包含Tom Petty在內的三名團員1977年另組the Heartbreakers，他們的"Breakdown"
(#40)是第一首暢銷曲。
The Heartbreakers接著還有幾首幾首成績不錯的歌如"Don't Do Me Like That" (#10-1980)、"Refugee" (#15-1980)
及"The Waiting (#19-1981) ，1981年Tom還和 Fleetwood的女主唱Stevie Nicks合唱"Stop Draggin' My Heart
Around"，獲得第三名。
Tom Petty曾和幾位歌壇巨星 George
Harrison、 Roy
Orbison、Bob Dylan 及ELO的Jeff Lynne合作以the Traveling Wilburys之名出過二張專輯唱片，他在團裡面只是小咖而已。
Tom Petty還參加過電影"FM"
與
"Made In Heaven"的演出，2002年Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers進入搖滾樂名人堂，2005年獲選入Billboard世紀歌星榜。
Tom
Petty and the Heartbreakers在歷年暢銷歌星排行榜獲得161名。
"Refugee"是Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers最有代表性的歌。
REFUGEE
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
We got somethin' we both know it
We don't talk too much about it
Yeah it ain't no real big secret all the
same
Somehow we get around it
Listen it don't really matter to me baby
You believe what you want to believe
You see you don't have to live like a
refugee
Somewhere, somehow somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you wanna lay there
And revel in your abandon
Listen it don't make no difference to me
baby
Everybody's had to fight to be free
You see you don't have to live like a
refugee
Now baby you don't have to live like a
refugee
Baby we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lover's been
burned
Right now this seems real to you
But it's one of those things
You gotta feel to be true
Somewhere, somehow somebody
Must have kicked you around some
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped
Tied up, taken away and held for ransom
It don't really matter to me
Everybody's had to fight to be free
You see you don't have to live like a
refugee
I said you don't have to live like a
refugee
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